My Top Traffic Fixing Secrets Revealed in Cities Skylines
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Why didn't they just call the game Traffic Skylines??
I can do better, call this game "Biffa Skylines"
Cities:gridlocked
@@Mira_linn Biffa should do a kickstarter for his own game, called Traffic Manager 2020... Imagine how tedious that would be.
Well Colossal is know for it's "Cities in Motion". They just didn't want to call it "Cities in Gridlock" :D
because mine has a beautifull city, and not just traffic anymore, and thats for 80% thanks to biffas vids.
9:25 i guess that number one is roundabout, you are basically in love with roundabouts
The man is British. We look at the Yanky Stop signs and gridlocked grid cities and cry. Why do it to yourselves? Just put a roundabout in.
And yet no one in the US knows how to drive on a rotary.
We have a ton of traffic circles in North Carolina. They are becoming popular again.
@@wta1518 we use traffic lights too but because the streets are smaller we use a lot more roundabouts to make up for the smaller space we have in Cities
Hi biffa, definitely agree. Thank you for these tips to CS community. I would add one little advice more and this is "Do not put junctions too close to each other, especially in the main roads."
Yeah there's loads of tips, but have to stop the list somewhere 😋
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Of course, you had to. :-D Thanks Biffa for your content, I really enjoy everytime since I start to watch it. And more, my city is not chock a block with cars anymore!
I'd stopped playing due to frustrations with growing my cities, but since watching most of the 'fix your city' series I've started playing again and actually enjoy the game! Thank you for helping novices like me enjoy Cities Skylines. :)
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If you starting your city from scratch, not fixing someone's mess in custom scenarios: i recommend to leave some space between separate areas. Dont build zones and areas really dense, otherwise you wouldnt be able to upgrade your network without massively reshaping the city.
Can't wait for your next new city you build yourself.
instablaster.
I'm pretty sure that number one starts with a "R"
and ends with "oundabouts"
I recently re-loaded all the cities I gave up upon due to traffic problems. With your tips I was able to fix them all. Thanks a lot!
Nice 👍
I did the same thing, went back to the very first city i tried and got it up to 250K and 70% traffic thanks to Biffa and others. The American aversion to roundabouts (rotaries in the local parlance) is holding me back and being total rubbish with trains :(
i love fixing my shitty old cities
This video summarizes why I watch your videos. I'd say roundabouts changed my game experience :D Pathways comes a close second though.
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And remember to make gentle curves for metro tunnels, roads, etc so the vehicles don't have to slow down into the turn.
I do love a good roundabout, but I don't like to treat it as the ultimate go-to solution to traffic. One thing I love about Traffic Management mod is the timed traffic lights. People take traffic lights for granted and immediately remove them because there are no repercussions for road accidents (doesn't even exist). It adds realism as traffic lights are everywhere in real life, and it feels good when you can you can achieve a nice flow on a timed traffic light.
That's why it's a top 6 and not a top 1 😉
Traffic lights are everywhere? Not in the town where I live, there is only one set but there are several roundabouts. The only junction causing hold ups is the one with traffic lights.
I like these simple fixes so biffa can focus on which situation requires an oval about, squareabout, squishabout. And on which haughkey baukey blonked roundabouts need more biffafying =)
I thought it was spelt horkey borkey
Number 1 was roundabouts? I was sure it was gonna be a "Giddy Aunt"
#1 is mass meteor strikes. DARN round-a-bouts! Never saw that coming!
I can totally see why you would confuse those two. Both are round, literally obliterate most traffic problems and seem to be send down to us from the gods.
My best part in every of fix videos is you explaining how to fix.. even birds on tree know how to fix but watching you doing that is pleasing
I've been looking at what red roads mean more carefully - it seems to increase when cars are doing less than the assigned speed limit. You must get a small "up tick" whenever a vehicle is delayed, which decays to zero in time. The more vehicles delayed the redder it gets - it's not really about "busy". Sharp bends and corners also cause red. Obvs stationary queues are the worst. The traffic score might improve just by reducing speed limits! Next test :-) Keep up the good content Biffa!
#1: Build a dam up stream, fill it, when traffic gets bad, destroy dam.
Problem solved.
Gotta say how oddly relaxing and satisfying these videos are. A lot like ASMR videos.
2600 sips of tea.
Biffa! Now please make a video with worst ways of traffic managing "Bad advises. How to make city with 1% traffic" - tell about typical mistakes.
With the lane mathematics, I actually prefer adding a lane rather than removing lanes. I think it looks a bit better, and functions the same way. Although I pretty much never use more than 2 lanes for straight roads, so that's one reason why.
#7 Weaving: making sure that your on-off ramps, and junctions, are not too close to each other. This is why the 4-leaf clover sucks in real life (and the game) for handling heavy traffic. Because it can't no matter what you do.
#8 would be the road hierarchy of freeway, main road, connection road, and no outlet roads. Arrange them properly and traffic doesn't build up on small roads.
#9 Finally, cramming high-traffic causing buildings next to each other. The simple act of leaving space in between industrial buildings gives traffic room to maneuver. Looks cool, too.
The 4-leaf clover is a design with a small footprint and only one bridge. That's why it's probably the most popular design anywhere. Also weaving in the real world isn't as big a problem as in the game, where it only happens on one note. Also the scales are often way off in the game. I've built custom three way stacks based on measurements from google maps and the vanilla one was just tiny in comparison. If you stop cramping everything as close together as possible and allow the game some amount of realistic scaling, you're traffic problems will also disappear quite fast.
The weaving zone of a cloverleaf is often like 250m long. Thats at least 100m longer then ingame.
Your #9 is what Ive been doing this time around as well. Just not cramming soooo much. At least not with high density commercial and the industrial area. More space to breathe.. walk and bike paths, trees and so forth. Cuts noise and looks good.
_Sip a tea_
Me: *sip a coffee
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Me: Sip of Milk.
@@wta1518 Me: puts a leaf in a steaming cup of hot water.
i truly love your videos. your concept and explanation of lane mathematics in previous videos completely changed my approach to road design and layout, and my cities have flourished since its implementation. thank you for what you do, and heres to more in the future! Cheers!
Looking forward to watching this video! Ha, the soundtrack you picked...at the beginning of the video, the little sound effect made me think my doorbell rang and the post was here. 😁
Excellent to have all your fixes in one video! Succinct and to the point, love it!
I've been watching your city fix videos....I've been learning. My cities are getting better. Current city is up to 48K pop, and growing, all your fixes applied (well, i could probably use more pedestrian paths) and traffic is at 86%! My first cities would clog up heavily at around the 18-20K pop mark! lol
Badger.
one thing you forgot when talking about roundabouts is that lowering the speed helps traffic merge into the roundabout.
@@beechmasters9217 It's ok, I've had some Biffa love before, I'm not greedy, and he might be scared of coming on too strong. :P I'm sure your time will come, though. #lifegoals
@@beechmasters9217 same. tone is hard with naught but text.
Biffa, I enjoyed this video and how well you demonstrated lane mathematics and everything else as well. I didn't think about walking paths above busy intersections to redirect cims from using crosswalks therefore slowing traffic from turning to keeping on. Can't wait on more videos and on vanilla fixes as well.
Number one fix: ROUNDABOUTS
Biffa! Are you deliberately doing this? I mean missing that 3 lane road on the upper left? :'( 2:10
Road hierarchy! Too many cities use roads that are way too big for local traffic. This example city uses 8-lane roads where 4-lane roads would be sufficient.
I know right? It always pains me to see people use massive roads they do not need. :(
That too! 😋
Wrong, I've in L.A. Once you created small road, in the future; you can't change it to bigger size. Roundabout is unrealistic for megacity.
@@aznguymetal I was raised in LA on a small two-lane road in one of the South Bay cities. I think I have an idea of your perspective, but Cities:Skylines road reconstruction is far simpler than Los Angeles road reconstruction. There are four-lane roads in the game that use the same space as two-lane roads, so they can be upgraded in place without moving buildings. Six- and eight-lane roads should not be used as local roads but as main roads with few intersections, just a step under highways.
One of my tips is to DELETE CLOVERLEAF INTERCHANGES. I'm from Australia and we don't have a single one here. On the game, the weaving kills me and cloverleafs always clog up with traffic. Turbines or Stack interchanges work so much better for 4 way interchanges
I think the best is green wave - when all junctions in sequence turn on green lights in one direction and create a wave of movement. Very complicated, but looks really good.
I find that since I have learned from Biffa, many of my current traffic issues stem from not using the correct road size. It is amazing how using a smaller road here and a larger road there helps the path finding for the game traffic.
I expect Roundabouts, squareabouts, & Squishabouts! hahaha
I also hope this means you're starting a new city build! I'm excited.
BTW, Biffa, you're a living legend... helping all the citizens out of gridlock. Bless you, sir!
Absolutely love watching your traffic fixes... Thanks so much Biffa
Thankyou 👍
I’ve tried these myself in my cities and they do work. I’ve had traffic at 60% and after fixing with the above methods it shot up to 80% or higher. Also helps if you have a decent, sensible layout as well. Thanks Biffa! Excellent!
i am absolutely obsessed with your videos. thank you so much for your hard work!!
I've found a new love for Skylines after watching your vids. Pretty much gave up on it due to traffic problems but not anymore
Biffa, the Cities: Skylines' saviour ! YAYY
Biffa, your videos are great! its so satisfying to watch you fixing the traffic.
At the beginning of summer i got one of your videos on my recommendations and after i watched it, i really got biffa fever! I watch your videos non-stop and even watched some of the older series. Mind you, i don't own Cities Skylines and haven't even played the game once in my life. But now i'm an expert on fixing traffic and follow your channel religiously!
Thanks for watching 😁
I was in your shoes for 6 months...then bought the game. Lots of fun. Thanks, Biffa
@@mrjbg2000 My problem is that, if i want to buy and actually play the game, first i have to get a new pc :P
Slowly actually learning to play the game (with mods), on my 3rd city now with 100+K citizens en 80% traffic all down to your videos :)
Connecting roads going under the highway and using pathways. Learned the hard way why you need to keep passenger and cargo trainlines separate...oops!
I like building up a city with nice neighborhoods and trying to make it look good and work well!
Thanks for this video too! Knew almost all except the node thing when you do lane pointers, I had people going around in loops on such a clover leaf too!
Anarchy in the UK:
Do you want some tea, darling?
No.
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69 sips of tea so far.
Nice
nice.
Excellent video. Hey Biffa, I would really enjoy if you could do a general city planning video. For example, tips for optimizing road layouts with traffic in mind, where to add streets, where to add certain businesses, etc. Also, it would be useful if we could get examples on what not to do.
Thank you so much for the pointers, traffic was driving me nuts!
12:44 "Look at that, that deserves a sip of tea... [THUMP] I've run out of tea!"
That sounded so funny! :D
Easily your best video yet! I love you keep it up
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Great video! I really want to get back to playing cities skylines but I haven't had to time
6 road math
5 subways
4 give way signs
3 roundabouts
2 ovalabouts
1 roundabouts
3 should be biffabouts
Yep
Lol
Don't forget about squareabouts and horky-borkyabouts
@@juliemills9643 Triangleabouts
Let's go Biffa early crew
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My city is very simply structured with just grids. This makes for a very efficient city with very few issues. I have not once seen traffic below 85%. It usually stays above 90%. But this also makes for a boring city.
I love this series please keep them coming
Been a while Biffa... building a full fledged city soon? (with campus, using your fav maps which I believe are made by ecania) I'd love to see you do that, especially with traffic solving biffa V10.0. Though one question, is "lane mathematics" neccesary? I personally think it looks a bit odd, so my question is can you do the same thing using the lane connector thing of TM:PE (I like my lanes normally, and most off the shelf intersections are like that)
Yes, it's necessary 😉
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines What would happen if I didn't (silently cries as OCD kicks in hard)
Awesome! Thank you ! :D
There are two tips that solves about 90% of your traffic problems: download the traffic manager and don't cross the streams.
dont think about the marshmellow man!
There was no metro to the separated industry area. Maybe a bus line.
Wow! That was a great tutorial about traffic manager
Thank you
Also, turning lanes for those main roads in your city work well to make sure all your lanes are used instead of a single lane.
I have been progressing throughout the 15 tiles which helped a ton and I have used 1/3 of the map, changed a lot of things here and there to keep things moving, experimenting and less pressure on the traffic. over 17M cash, +135k population. Reworked plenty of things and the cargo is heavily needed by trains in the same map as the first clip.
I have been having fun with the mods and move it mod especially. Even though everything is from your help.
These have always worked for me. My saviour for Cities!
Good stuff mate!
You rock, Biffa!
Your awesome vids gave me the itch to get into this game so i went and bought it :D notice you had a best mods vid so will be grabbing all of those too! i imagine your recommendations would still be the same. Keep up the great work.
👍 Enjoy
Nr. 1 should definetely be tea, it helps with all the traffic, especially in a Biffa mug ;-)
Biffa: saving the world, one city at a time
if Biffa gets a sip of tea every time someone leaves a like, what happens when someone leaves a dislike? Sip of chilli sauce?
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BIFFA! Please give us a [well planned out city start] that is planned for future traffic. I would love for it to be a series on a personal build of your own. I like the fixing of peoples mistakes learned lots from it, would love to see your creation at work. #FANOFYOURCAHNNEL!
The single most helpful skylines vid on the interwebs
4:09
I just wanted to say, that I do also take the extra step: Making sure that cars from the middle lane are the ones who can switch to the right-hand lane and the right-hand lane can only switch in the middle (or stay, obviously). The left-hand lane can bypass everything. Cars have to sort themselves out a little further, which may also increase the flow as well as adds a little bit of help (no left-hand to right-hand switching in that node) ^^
Live your videos Biffa. I watch them at work so I can imagine I had free time to play games instead of providing for my family :0
Any tips for making cars not randomly switch lanes on highways or make them use all highway lanes?
Yes, in the video 😉
9:25 roundaboutsssssssss! you are in love with them :)
Those metro loops have another couple advantages of being easy to manage as well as easy to install.
Indeed 👍
I remember now that I used to do "lane management" on each and every roundabouts, asking people to do like in real life. One lane for off (or two if 6 lanes afterwards xD) and then the other lanes were to downgrade on the lane progression of the roundabout. Could you please make a little test of your version and this version to see which one is better ? I mean, I can't test anymore, my PC is to broken now, can't launch the game :/
WHO ELSE IS HERE WITH BIFFA, before he used 3 -1 =2 ? Back in the days when he did 3+1 = 4, and explained that this is how they do it in real world
miss the old biffa
Lane mathematics evolve with the emergence of Lane management
Awesome thank you!
Have become addicted to your channel and am definitely going to give this game a try, but I was just wondering if you have a list of mods that you use or at least recommend?
2:34 Noped right out of that one node lane merge didn't ya.
Every time I feel like playing a bit of Cities I always watch one of your videos, just for inspiration and such, almost always interesting cities with interesting fixes.
Also, which tea is your favourite? I still havn't found mine.
Yorkshire FTW 👍
A nice summary Biffa.
Have you thought of doing a road hierarchy one too?
Maybe
Biffa, excellent video on exposing your secrets to unclogging traffic. You forgot to add simply despawning all the cars. 😆 Seriously, I noticed the three lane highway you use for a roundabout is walled. Is there a reason for this? Why not one without said wall? 🤔 Thanks...
Walls are quieter 😉
It's not just in Cities, people in real life generally don't mind walking a long way, if it saves them a car ride.
I live in a town that has been voted to have the worst mass transit in the country, but instead of subsidising busses, they invested in walking bridges over the main roads, between the residential areas and the industrial areas. Traffic cleared right up!
They also put in a lane on one of the two motorways that is only for vehicles with more than 1 person in it, so that condensed the transit a lot as well. Most cars still only have 1 person in them, but about 20% started car pooling, so that's 10% of the cars gone right there.
Biffa, we need a new City build in City Skylines.
#1 sip of tea, obviously!
If you're only going to have one mod in this game it has to be Traffic Manager: Presidents Edition. I wouldn't be without it. The developers should have had this in the game from day one.
I understand, but in the developers said they want it accessible to people. I appreciate that. I play on PC on vanilla & a few DLCs. When I get past 40K pop, my game starts to glitch a bit. I'm now researching upgrading my RAM, but yeah. I finally got 1 city to 90K & unlocked monuments, but I have to save so often, I put it on Autosave because the crashing is really bad. lol
Im thinking sometimes less roads is more effective and only use large roads for connecting different parts of cities
Hey biffa, maybe you can check the highway solution as they fixed it in Holland almere at the A6/A1/A9 all to fix the traffic problems to amsterdam, and back.
They created an 2 lane fast connection without exits accompanied with an 2 lane highway with all the exits, half of the city 4 lanes come together and split up again after an few miles. To the bridge at Muiden. Keeps the traffic sepparated.
Literally every single one of these fixes are 100% of your other videos. ESPECIALLY the roundabout and mass transit/walkway fixes. Amazing how simple your fixes are. If only real cities were planned like that in the states
Great vid. Have you looked at Transport Fever? Your building skills would be great
Hey Biffa, checkout the Wiki article entitled:
Interchange (road)
As well as the CZcams video:
"Traffic flow measured on 30 different 4-way junctions"
There are some hella cool interchanges you should experiment with - It is quite extensive and some rare ones in there I have never seen.
It would be an interesting video to see you try some advanced ones in a city! Some of my favorites are the Diverging Windmill, Continuous-Flow Intersection, Contraflow Left, and Turbo-Roundabout ^_^ I know you love your roundabouts....
Great Video
Hey biffa!! Love the channel... remember back when you played sim airport? A huge update came out back in June!!! Can you play and see what you think? A lot of new and interesting stuff!!
Thanks. I won't be playing it again as there is no interest for it from CZcams viewers now, sorry :-)
Well if you get sometime to tinker with it, you should... even if you don’t put it up here... the update is a game changer
Perfect tips😏
Biffa you're making me yell ROUNDABOUTS out loud again.
Fix #1 : Roundabouts
Fix #1.1 : TEA! More Tea Please.
I'm going to guess roundabouts or ovalabouts.
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feed bad, been watching your videos for months and only just subbed! Better later than never I guess.
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I'd be interested in seeing how prototypical roundabout configuration (at least how it's supposed to be done according to the British Highway Code) affects traffic. For Exit 1 you use the lane furthest to from the median (lane 1), for Exit 2 you use Lane 2 and for Exit 3 and onward you use Lane 3, and as you pass an exit everyone moves away from the centre by one lane, so Lane 1 leaves, Lane 2 changes to lane 1 as its exit is next, Lane 3 becomes lane 2 etc.
Also, those offices that were demolished for the bridge ramp:
"What do you think of our new Bridge?"
"Uhm, well it's great and all that, but unfortunately my place of work was demolished to make way for it so I don't really have any use for it any more"
I think your videos are very helpful for peoples who don't know traffic trick. But there is a lot of traffic mods and tricks, but the best is ROUNDABOUT☺
mostly its just that a city needs morn on and off ramsp
Biffa, With your vanila fixs you'r way to good for those who wont spend 10 bucks for such a cool game. really promote mods, perhaps make links during the video to different mods and perhaps links to other video's where you do your interchange and roundabout settings, that way you wont have to annoy yourself with telling things over and over. btw, i cant get yorkshrine thea where i live :( Good video:)
Two years on from last comment and now on ps4 without all the great stuff but still as addictive and full of traffic, so question are we city builders or road traffic managers? Lol loving all your great videos. Can you update a few for ps4?
Do another city build series!